Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 9, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 9th, 2021 Workplace surveillance is entering our homes and driving through our streets Surveillance in the workplace is nothing new, but there are far more people working in places where other people may be in view and have their privacy unjustly compromised. One great example is the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 9, 2021”

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  • Apr 5, 2021
  • Chris Miller
  • General Privacy News, Social Media,

ACLU shares user data with Facebook and friends

The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU or short, is a regular critic of Facebook for its many privacy failures over the years. Yet, a recent update to its privacy statement reveals that they may share your personal information with Facebook if you use their website: we may share your personal information with communications platforms, … Continue reading “ACLU shares user data with Facebook and friends”

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  • Dec 24, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

ACLU sues to find out how the FBI is breaking into encrypted devices

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has the ability to break into encrypted phones and laptops, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing so that the public can finally learn about how it is done. The encryption breaking is allegedly done by the FBI’s Electronic Device Analysis Unit (EDAU). Public documents have alluded … Continue reading “ACLU sues to find out how the FBI is breaking into encrypted devices”

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  • Nov 13, 2019
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Federal court rules that the Fourth Amendment protects your laptops and smartphones from suspicionless searches at the border

A federal court in Boston has ruled that suspicionless searches of the smartphones and laptops of travelers violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) worked together to achieve this new precedent. The ACLU released the welcome news on November 12th, calling the court … Continue reading “Federal court rules that the Fourth Amendment protects your laptops and smartphones from suspicionless searches at the border”

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  • Nov 1, 2019
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

ACLU sues to find out status of facial recognition mass surveillance in America

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed suit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Justice (DoJ), and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The case was filed in a Massachusetts federal court on Tuesday, October 29th. The filing asks for details about how the government currently uses and audits the use … Continue reading “ACLU sues to find out status of facial recognition mass surveillance in America”

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  • Dec 22, 2018
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

As facial recognition systems continue to spread, so do concerns about their deployment

Facial recognition is hardly new – Privacy News Online has been writing about the topic for years now. But it is becoming more and more the norm, as some recent news shows. For example, the following story from Rolling Stone: Taylor Swift fans mesmerized by rehearsal clips on a kiosk at her May 18th Rose … Continue reading “As facial recognition systems continue to spread, so do concerns about their deployment”

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  • Aug 11, 2018
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

US politicians discover personally the pitfalls of facial recognition: is it time to ban it completely?

For all the theoretical concerns about the limitations of facial recognition systems, there’s nothing like personal experience to hammer the point home. That was confirmed recently when the ACLU ran an interesting experiment using Amazon’s cloud-based Rekognition system, which Privacy News Online discussed a couple of months back: Using Rekognition, we built a face database … Continue reading “US politicians discover personally the pitfalls of facial recognition: is it time to ban it completely?”

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  • May 28, 2018
  • Glyn Moody
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

In China’s footsteps: Amazon and US schools normalize automatic facial recognition and constant surveillance

Amazon has developed a powerful cloud-based facial recognition system called “Rekognition”, which has major implications for privacy. It is already being used by multiple US police forces to carry out surveillance and make arrests, the ACLU has learned. Amazon claims that Rekognition offers real-time face matching across tens of millions of individuals held in a … Continue reading “In China’s footsteps: Amazon and US schools normalize automatic facial recognition and constant surveillance”

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